Improvement in weather-strips



Letters Patent No. 113,500, dated April 1t, 1871. I

iMPRovMENT liv WEATHER-STRIPS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of thesame.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, FRANKLIN A. Cours, of Kelloggsville, in the county ofAshtabula, State of Ohio,

`have invented certain new and useful Improvements several views. Y

The nature-of this invention relates to a weatherstrip for doors, thesame being adjusted to the doorsill by means of arms or levers,operated, (on shutting the door,) by `means of a lug 'attached to thedoorcasing, as hereinafter more fully described.

In the drawing, tig. 1

A is the door, at the bottom of which is hinged the weather-strip B,iig. 2.

The lower edge of the strip is raised and retainer; above the floor bymeans of a spring underneath the strip, as indicated by the dotted linesa, 1.

Above the weather-stri p is -pivoted a pair of arms, O C', projectingfrom the ends of a rod, as indicated by the dotted lines b. A detachedView of said arms and rod is shown inig. 4,' p

Said arms and rod 'are attached to the door by means of staples, so thatthe arms are thereby allowed to move vupward and downward, and whicharms at all times rest upon the upper side of the weather-strip.

D is a shield orhood secured to thedoor above the weather-strip, thepurpose of which is to protect said strip from the rains, die.

The practical operation of the above-described weather-strip is asfollows:

lhe strip, when the door is open, is lifted above theV floor by aspring, (t, referred to; hence it will not drag ,l

upon the carpet; therefore the door is free to'swing open or to close,as may be.

The lower edge of the strip (on closing the door) is made to come closedown upon the threshold or sill bymeans of the two arms C O abovedescribed; thus,

the lower end of the ar1n.O,o11 closing the door, strikes upon oragainst a lug, E, iig. l, (also indicated by the dotted lilies c, figs.2 and 3,) secured to the sill of the door-casing near the ioor.

rlheI two arms, in consequence of the arm C striking against said lug,are `pressed down upon the upper side of the weather-strip,thereby'ibrcing the strip or the lower edge thereof close to'thedoor-silk, as shown' in tig 2. By this means the strip is made to closethe opening under the door from driving rains, snow, Sie., and making ittight against the admission of the winds.

Ola/im.

lVhat I claim as my invention, and desire to Secure by Letters Patent,is-

The arrangement of the cap D, strip B, and the arms C G' hinged to thedoor` between said cap and strip, in combination with the spring a, lug,E, door, and easing, operating eonjointly as and for the purposesubstantially setlforth.

f FRANKLIN A. OOATS.

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FRANKLIN A. OOATS, OF KELLOGGSV'ILLE,

